Re: possibly OT... US forces around the world... Is this really true....?

Well one of the places is the UK. and we did not vote specifically for it, 
as we don't vote specifically for any policy, and neither does anywhere
else - rather we vote for a party, which is a package of policies. Except
maybe Switzerland, where they can have a referendum on anything if 
enough people sign up for it.

"Katt" <kahgfghttt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Saw this somewhere and wondered if it's actually accurate...
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> "Wa****ngton and its apologists continually insist that the US is 'not
> an imperial power'. Yet of the 192 supposedly 'sovereign' states
> recognised by the United Nations, no fewer than *133* have a US
> military presence --  which, in each and every case, the population
> was not consulted about; did not vote for; and cannot choose to
> remove..." -----
> Anyone know how I can confirm the figures...? The '192' does appear in
> the wikipedia page for the UN...
> 
> Ta.
> 
> K.
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